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What's Some Tech That Was Better Than It Is Now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When you connect a new device to a 'smart' tv, you must pay homage to the manufacturer with a ritualistic dance. Plugging and unplugging the device. Turning them on and off in the correct sequence like entering a konami code.

Every time you want to switch devices, the tv must scan for them. And god forbid you lose power, or unplug something. You are granted the delight experience of doing it all over again.

I have fond memories of the days of just plugging something in, and pressing the input button. Instant gratification. It was a simpler time.

What is some other tech that used to be better?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All that chaos is still out there. Its just that its smaller and you have to not get stuck in the corporate bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Finding it is almost impossible though. I've tried and tried but the search engines don't show any of these cute little niche sites that are definitely out there.

[+] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I feel the bigger problem is that there just aren't as many of them.

Why host a webpage now when you can just set up a Facebook page for it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I wish people would realize there are people from every generation who won't touch Facebook, IG and other meta things. When we finally got s new mayor who actually said our town with soon have a real website, I nearly wept with joy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

“aren’t as many of them”

I do not believe that. There is more of everything now than there was Internet before. The web used to be tiny.

You are not going to find what you want by clicking on the “Mozilla Cool Site of the Day”. But they are out there.

Not that I do not agree with the point the OP is making. The “cool site” story itself illustrates the overall story-arc of the Internet pretty well:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Site_of_the_Day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You know, you aren't wrong.

I've been noodling on an idea for a while:

What about a.. fediverse focused/ federated search engine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yet back in the "good" days, we didn't have search engines.